John S and Mary C Snider Pyatt
John S Pyatt was born June 16, 1842, in Nicholas County, West Virginia, to William and Mary Smith Pyatt and died of pneumonia on February 13, 1896, in Cuba. He was buried in the Mt Hope Cemetery, Trace Ferry, Jackson County, West Virginia. He was married September 18, 1864, in Mason County, West Virginia to Mary C Snider (aka Margaret Catherine Snyder) born May 1, 1845, in Jackson County, West Virginia to Thomas and Elizabeth Buttler Snider. Mary Pyatt died October 11, 1929, in Trace Fork, Jackson County, West Viriginia, and is also buried in the Mt Hope Cemetery.
Of note is that there was another John Piatt (of Ohio) who lived at the same time in Jackson County, West Virginia who was married to Mary Truax. They are also buried in the Mt Home Cemetery as is Elizabeth Buttler Snyder who might have been the daughter of Levi Buttler of Roane County.
The marriage record of John and Mary in Mason Co, West Virginia reads as follows:
"John S Peyatt, aged 24 years 3 months, born Nicholas Co VA, farmer, son of William & Mary, to Mary C Snider, age 18, born Jackson Co WV, daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth, at the home of Thomas Snyder, by Isaac E Smith, 18 Sep 1864 on license dated 16 Sep 1864. (Book 3:19, p 196)
The children of John and Mary were:
- Sarah E Pyatt b: 20 Sep 1865, Kanawha Co, WV m: 17 Jul 1887, Jackson Co, WV Ephraim M Parsons (aged 21 of Trace Fork, WV)
- Emmagette Pyatt b: 20 Dec 1867, Kanawha Co, WV m: 1 Jan 1888, Jackson Co, WV Jonas Richards (aged 25 of Trace Fork, WV)
- Anna Louisiana Pyatt b: 5 (or 15) May 1869, Mason Co, WV d: 2 Dec 1958 m: 14 Sep 1889 Jackson Co, WV George Snyder (of Sandyville, Jackson Co, WV) (ancestor of Marlene Hardin deh1958@wcnet.org)
- Louise J Pyatt b: 8 Feb 1871
- Edward William Pyatt b: 2 Feb 1873 Nicholas Co, WV d: 19 Jun 1923 Sandyville, Jackson Co, WV m: 22 Jun 1898 Jackson Co, WV Amy Throckmorton
- Carl Edward Pyatt m: Lucy Emmaline Timmins
- Ernest Edward Pyatt m: Mildred Louise Gorrell
- Robert Lee Pyatt (1941, WV) m: Lucinda Lou Champ
- Robin Lynn Pyatt Bellamy triedit@primus.ca
- Nathan Pyatt b: 20 Nov 1875 Mason Co, WV m: 6 Feb 1899 Jackson Co WV, Fannie Morgan (of Jackson Co, WV)
- Rhoda Lee Pyatt b: 19 Oct 1877
- Margaret Pyatt b: 18 Sep 1879 Putnam Co, WV m: 14 May 1899 Jackson Co, WV Ezra Taylor (aged 33 of Wyandot Co, OH)
- Roxey Ellen Pyatt b: 15 Apr 1881 Jackson Co, WV d: 12 Aug 1858 Sewickley, PA
- Mettie Belle Pyatt b: 19 Oct 1883 Jackson Co, WV m: 17 Jun 1898, Jackson Co, WV Frank Lawler (aged 24 of Pittsburgh, PA)
- Nora Etta Pyatt b: 4 Jul 1885 Monroe Co, OH m: 12 Sep 1899, Jackson Co, WV Jesse Morgan (of Jackson Co, WV)
- John Grover Pyatt b: 19 May 1887 WV d: 6 Aug 1965 WV (buried Odd Fellows Cemetery, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV) m: 21 Sept 1911
Georgia Parrish b: c1886 WV
- Greta S Pyatt (adopted) b: c1913 WV
After John Pyatt's death in 1896, his widow and her sons built a log house where she raised all the children by herself, according to family tradition.
Sources:
- Carol Pyatt Malinose@aol.com
- Marlene Hardin
- Robin Bellamy of Canada triedit@primus.ca homepage
- Piatt Family Newsletter, Vol 4, 1989
- West Virginia marriage records
- 1930 Wood Co, WV, census
Updated May 2004
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